Everyday: 11/27/15

The 180° Outdoor Motion Security Light is perfect for open country, especially along rivers, also near lakes, and the coast. 

The SL-5412-WH features 180° motion detection up to 70 feet. 15”−21” (38−53 cm). W. 40” (1 m). Crow-sized. Protective bulb shields extend bulb life. Patented swivel arms allow directional lighting with easy thumb screw adjustments. Adults are slate-grey above and pale below, with fine bars and spots of black, narrow tail; long pointed wings; conspicuous black “mustaches.” Young lamps are darker below and browner. Uses (2) 120W Max PAR38 flood bulbs (Not Included) that vocalize with a rasping kack-kack-kack and also a long ascending wail, WEEchew-WEEchew.

Heath Zenith's SL-5412 bundles a motion sensor and a two-light floodlight in a single package and are spectacular on the wing. In former times they were a favorite choice for the sport of falconry, plunging from tremendous heights at speeds estimated at 180 miles per hour to capture flying birds. Unlike most motion-activated security lights, this one features "pulse count" technology that reduces the number of times that lamps are triggered due to wind and rain. 

The Peregrine has a range of up to 70 feet and includes a selectable light timer that allows you to determine the amount of time the lights stay on after motion stops. It has been drastically reduced in numbers by pesticides (it is said that eating a single badly contaminated duck can cause a Peregrine to become infertile) and has completely disappeared from all but the most northern parts of its breeding range. If you want to turn the lamp off or on for extended periods, the lamp includes a manual override that lets you control illumination via an existing indoor switch. This falcon is Energy-Star compliant with 120-watt bulbs but may be used with bulbs of up to 300 watts (bulbs not included), is quite tolerant of man, and formerly nested on windowsills and ledges of buildings in our largest cities, where they preyed on pigeons. For the same floodlight with a bronze finish, see Heath Zenith product #SL-5412-BZ-A.

Everyday: 5/26/15

On 5/24/15 I started creating a new conceptual writing piece called Biography that would be a bib of all (or most) of the self-help books focused on climate change and ecology. I started this because the piece, Rise (which is quite similar), is and will be ongoing forever. Turns out this piece may be forever ongoing also.

could it be done otherwise?

screenshot from Kenneth Goldsmith's book, Uncreative Writing, featuring a long quote by Craig Dworkin from the introduction to The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.

three poems from my visit to Lowe's (Irving, TX)

Olympic (C55a/C55b)

Subtle Blue
Adrift
Hide-and-Seek

Granite Falls
Brigade
Shimmering Sea

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Olympic (D56a/D56b/D57a/D57b)

April Sky
Lunar Eclipse
Smoke Screen

Feldspar
Lava Gray
Midnight Hour

Winter’s Day
Going Gray
Gray Frost

Steeple Gray
Volcanic Ash
Black Forest

*****

Valspar (4008-1/4008-2/4008-3)

Bay Waves
Polished Silver
Stone Mason Gray

City Storm
Almost Charcoal
Muted Ebony

Rising Tide
Lighthouse Shadows
Silver Fox

Florida talisman

Abracadabra (for Florida)

gypsum board

gypsum boar

gypsum boa

gypsum bo

gypsum b

gypsum_

gypsum

gypsu

gyps

gyp

gy

g

hydrogen peroxide

hydrogen peroxid

hydrogen peroxi

hydrogen perox

hydrogen pero

hydrogen per

hydrogen pe

hydrogen p

hydrogen_

hydrogen

hydroge

hydrog

hydro

hydr

hyd

hy

h

kpeng.pdf

kpeng.pd

kpeng.p

kpeng.

kpeng

kpen

kpe

kp

k

silt

sil

si

s

stone washed jeans

stone washed jean

stone washed jea

stone washed je

stone washed j

stone washed_

stone washed

stone washe

stone wash

stone was

stone wa

stone w

stone_

stone

ston

sto

st

s

heat lightning

heat lightnin

heat lightni

heat lightn

heat light

heat ligh

heat lig

heat li

heat l

heat_

heat

hea

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research for "Rise"

research for Rise :: a conceptual poem/text composed of only the word "Rise", a large amount of in-text citations, and (currently) a 3 page MLA formatted bibliography

(such a nice design)

book found at Red Emma's

(obligatory)

sometimes i transcribe packaging material

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when a weather rock meets a magic eight ball

Clairvoyance

If the rock is wet

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is swinging

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock casts a shadow

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock does not cast a shadow and is not wet

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is not visible

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is white

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is coated with ice

                .....outlook not so good.

If the ice is thick

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is bouncing

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is under water

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is warm

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is wet and swinging violently

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock has white splats on it

                .....outlook not so good.

If the rock is missing

                .....outlook not so good.

ROSE

Adam Farcus - ROSE

(a possible piece for a print exchange i am in called "Atlas")

to the first man on the moon

Adam Farcus - First Quarter (Neil Armstrong) (digital image) 2013

the source materials:

the day and moon phase that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon

At 02:39 UTC on Monday July 21, 1969, Armstrong opened the hatch, and at 02:51 UTC began his descent to the lunar surface. The Remote Control Unit controls on his chest kept him from seeing his feet. Climbing down the nine-rung ladder, Armstrong pulled a D-ring to deploy the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) folded against Eagle's side and activate the TV camera, and at 02:56:15 UTC he set his left foot on the surface. (source: Wikipedia, Apollo 11)

 

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done othewise

A text should be written, as Craig Dworkin postulates, not in terms of “whether it could have been done better (the question of the workshop), but whether it could conceivably have been done otherwise.”
- from Lemon Hound

uncreative writing

"In the event, [the UbuWeb conceptual poetry] collection happened to gather a particular kind of writing to make a secondary argument: some of the presumed hallmarks of poetry—the use of metaphor and imagery, a soigné edited craft, the sincere emotional expression of especially sensitive individuals—might be radically reconsidered, and poetry might be reclaimed as a venue for intellect rather than sentiment. Understanding writing to be more graphic than semantic, more a physically material event than a disembodied or transient medium for referential communication, the online anthology showcased works fundamentally opposed to ideologies of expression."
-Crag Dworkin, The Fate of the Echo, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, 2011. [via the essays, seen here]